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I'm going to close
with two more poems.

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It was just going to be a
single, somewhat longer poem,

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but before that I want to
read something, first thing

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I ever had-- not the
first thing I ever

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had published, but the first
thing I felt good about that I

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had published.

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It's called "Reaching
for the End."

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"The kingdoms of newsprint
were in jeopardy, green fires

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climbing on the street.

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The alphabets had
forbidden any visitors.

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The old man lay down on
the porches of your eyes.

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No papers could hide their
blue cigars, but all you saw

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was money, the bills.

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You didn't see us
loosening our belts.

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Frozen for too long, your
eyes ran out of their sockets.

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We were the trees
that were dying.

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We grew on the edge of the
sky, the million thirsty hands

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reaching for the
end, with the sky

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getting ready to fall on us.

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The yellow butterflies
had all become leaves,

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with the sound of hooves
beating near like locomotives

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and the still warm sand."

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